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<td class="v">1:1</td>
<td>Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:</td>
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<td class="v">1:2</td>
<td>Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.</td>
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<td class="v">1:3</td>
<td>I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,</td>
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<td class="v">1:4</td>
<td>Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,</td>
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<td class="v">1:5</td>
<td>For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;</td>
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<td class="v">1:6</td>
<td>Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:</td>
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<td class="v">1:7</td>
<td>Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.</td>
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<td class="v">1:8</td>
<td>For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.</td>
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<td class="v">1:9</td>
<td>And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;</td>
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<td class="v">1:10</td>
<td>That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;</td>
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<td class="v">1:11</td>
<td>Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.</td>
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<td class="v">1:12</td>
<td>But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;</td>
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<td class="v">1:13</td>
<td>So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;</td>
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<td class="v">1:14</td>
<td>And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.</td>
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<td class="v">1:15</td>
<td>Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:</td>
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<td class="v">1:16</td>
<td>The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:</td>
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<td class="v">1:17</td>
<td>But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.</td>
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<td class="v">1:18</td>
<td>What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.</td>
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<td class="v">1:19</td>
<td>For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,</td>
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<td class="v">1:20</td>
<td>According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.</td>
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<td class="v">1:21</td>
<td>For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.</td>
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<td class="v">1:22</td>
<td>But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.</td>
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<td class="v">1:23</td>
<td>For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:</td>
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<td class="v">1:24</td>
<td>Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.</td>
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<td class="v">1:25</td>
<td>And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;</td>
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<td class="v">1:26</td>
<td>That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.</td>
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<td class="v">1:27</td>
<td>Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;</td>
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<td class="v">1:28</td>
<td>And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.</td>
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<td class="v">1:29</td>
<td>For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;</td>
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<td class="v">1:30</td>
<td>Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.</td>
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